Welcome to Inspired By Challenge #IB409!🍂🍁

This week we’re inspired by Fall Leaves — perfect timing as we settle into October and all those beautiful autumn colours!

You could be inspired by the leaves, patterned papers, touches of gold, text print, or the warm mix of cream, golden orange and soft green. The sketch is wonderfully simple this week too — one large focal panel that leaves lots of room to play!

Remember, you don’t have to take the inspiration literally. Maybe it’s the colours, the fall feeling, one of the patterns or simply a tiny detail that sparks an idea.

Check out how the design team were inspired:

Cathy Harper

Von Marie

MarDi

Kelly Schirmer

Laurel Seabrook

We can’t wait to see what you create! Join us for #IB409, tag @inspired_by_challenge and use #inspiredbychallenge. After linking up your card, be sure to share it in our Facebook group too!

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Hello it’s Amy @craftee1. My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Coffee Mugs

For today’s card was inspired by the colors and coffee theme.

I combined the following Pretty Pink Posh products:

• Winter Mug | die
• Spooky Mug Additions | die
• Twinkle | stencil

The sentiment is by Riley & Company – Hocus Pocus.

I put a couple drops of Catherine Pooler – Cotton Candy reinker with the Hero Arts White paste before stenciling.

The cardstock I used:

• Blush – Spellbinders | Colorwheel
• Saffron – Spellbinders | Colorwheel
• Orchid – Spellbinders | Colorwheel

I can’t wait to see how you’re inspired!

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 Hello everyone Von Marie here and I’m so excited for the Inspired by…Blog Challenge this week. Guess what the theme is??? It’s Coffee Mugs#IB408 and you know I love coffee. The inspiration photo is so great too!!!

Let’s Get Started:

I was inspired by the theme, colors, and card sketch. I love the Inspiration photo so much it gave me first a Alice in Wonderland and theme park Vibe. So fun. I started out with a A2 white cardstock panel 4 1/4 x 5 1/2. I used A Colorful Life Designs Layered Cups Stencil(use VonFan10 to save) It has 2 stencils. I inked up the stencil with Catherine pooler inks in Do Si Do, Serenade, and Glitz. On the second stencil I used a heavier hand to get the designs on the mugs. I stamped a sentiment from Jillian Vance Design retired coffee stamp with the Do Si Do ink on white cardstock and then fussy cut it out.

I used Concord & 9th Bake Shop Dies for the mugs. I cut them out with white cardstock and layerd them on a additional mug for depth, I then ink blended them with the same ink colors to match. I tried to incorporate the card sketch on my card. I black scrap was perfect and I glued my card panel to a A2 card base. I had a additional Mug so I glued that inside my card. I also noticed I could have did only 4 mugs…Oh well it was so much fun!!

Now it’s your turn! I can’t wait to see your card.

Check out my Video Process here on making this card

Crafty Hugs

Von Marie

For my card today, I was inspired by the cute pastel mugs and flowers in the inspiration photo, as well as the colors.

I used patterned paper scraps to stamp out, heat emboss, and die cut these cute mugs. The stamps and dies are from a very old Hero Arts club kit. The flowers are Spellbinders, and the decorative panel is Papertrey Ink. The sentiment is from Technique Junkies, sadly, no longer in business. The coffee bean stencil in the background is from IOS stamps, also no longer in business.

It’s always enjoyable and satisfying to use cherished items from my stash to create beauty.

We hope you’re inspired to join us this week. ~MarDi

Love all the fall cards in the gallery last week! And yay, fall is officially here.

JB

So much to love here. The bold fall colours, the texture and that beautiful cluster of goodness! Congratulations JB!

Don’t forget to play along this week.

Coffee is one of my top 10 favorite things! So I was very excited to see this week’s “Coffee Mugs” photo. Along with the mugs, the little awning and the daisies caught my eye. I decided to make a little coffee shop window of my own…

I used Carta Bella Paper ‘s “Summer” collection with the cute daisy paper so that changed my original color scheme of pink, purple, and yellow!. I made an awning with a vintage “Large Scalloped Border” die from Papertrey Ink, then used their “Into the Blooms: Daisies” dies, too.

The “Hearts at Home: Mugs” are from The Greetery, tucked inside the “Window Dressing :Dotted Scalliops” die cut. The sentiment is from Simon Says Stamps’ “Best-teas” set.

I hope you are enjoying a latte right now on your front or back porch, feeling the last of summer’s warmth before falls blows in! Have a great day!

This week’s Inspired By….Coffee mugs challenge had me thinking warm drinks and cozy fall days! I turned that inspiration into pumpkin-spice coffee cup card filled with gingham, pumpkins and all those warm autumn touches.

Because really-pumpkin spice makes everything nice!

Share with us your warm and cozy creations this week!

~Cathy

Hey, happy Friday! Happy Fall! Now that we have done our last camping trip I am in fall mode. This weekend I hope to put my garden away and dig out my fall stuff. Do you decorate for fall?

However… for this week’s card I seemed to jump right over fall right to winter LOL

I was inspired by the texture on the mugs – made me think of a sweater, the checks and the coffee theme. I used the new North Pole Christmas Collection by Echo Park – love the pink in it!

I used the Perfect Girl by Unity and had fun paper piecing. I used to paper piece all the time and kind of missed it. Besides I figure this pink print work well for a sweater. I cut the background frame and the sentiment from the 6 x 6 paper pad so this went together quite easily. As always, finished with some snowflakes.

That’s all for me today. I hope you have a good weekend and can’t wait to see your creations this week.

Welcome to Inspired By Challenge #IB408! 

This week we’re inspired by Coffee Mugs — and there are so many fun little details to pull from this one!

You could be inspired by the mugs, flowers, stripes, checks, bows, or that cheerful mix of pink, purple and yellow. And don’t forget the sketch — that row of four little elements could become flowers, coffee cups, hearts, circles, die cuts… so many possibilities!

As always, you don’t have to take the inspiration literally. Choose the photo, colours, sketch or simply one little detail that sparks an idea and make it your own.

Here’s how the design team were inspired:

Kelly Schirmer

Cathy Harper

Amy Tsuruta

Von Marie

MarDi

Laurel Seabrook

We can’t wait to see what you create! Join us for #IB408, tag @inspired_by_challenge and use #inspiredbychallenge. After linking up your card, be sure to share it in our Facebook group too! 

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Hello it’s Amy @craftee1. My project was inspired by the newest Inspired by Challenge: Acorns

For today’s card was inspired by the colors and fall theme.

I combined the following Altenew products:

• Craft Your Life Project Kit: The Afternoon Spread
• Craft Your Life Project Kit: The Afternoon Spread & Add-on Die Bundle

The distress oxides I used:

• Tea Dye
• Aged Mahogany
• Hickory Smoke

The cardstock I used:

• Fawn – Spellbinders | Colorwheel
• Nutmeg | Concord & 9th
• Pebble | Concord & 9th
• Dove | Concord & 9th
• Cobblestone | Concord & 9th

I can’t wait to see how you’re inspired!

Thanks for stopping by!

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